Improvement in ironing-tables



F. A. PAUL.

IRONING-TAB-LE.

Patented Jan. 11, 1876.

Wi iizewew UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

FREDERICK A. PAUL, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES -GORDON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,051, dated January 11,1876; application filed October 21, 1875. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIoK A. PAUL,

' of the city of Syracuse, in the county of ()nported at the butt-end by cast-iron legs B, to

which it is bolted. 0-0 are braces running up slanting each way from the cross-beam a into cleats on the under side of the board A, making a support for the middle of the board A, and also bracing it in each direction, holding itfirm and steady. G is the bed-piece, to which the cross-beam a is bolted. The bed-piece is bolted at one end to the legs B, the other end being bolted to and supported by the legs g. The racks F F are hinged at one end to the crossbeam a, and to the legs 9 at the other end, so as to close together under the board A. The racks F F are kept in their vertical position by shoulders i i on the legs 9. e e are strips of thin board, hinged at one edge to the lower rail of the racks F F, the other edge resting on the bed-piece G, and, with it, forming a bottom to the apartment under the board A. f is a flat rest. D is a cast-iron grate screwed to the braces 0 c and the legs B, and may be used for holding flat-irons not in use. The legs B are furnished With rollers b b.

It will be seen that the tapering end of the board A is not attached to anything, but is left perfectly free, so that a shirt or skirt, or any cylindrical garment, may be run onto it and ironed with ease and neatness, While the sleeves of a shirt, or the lower-side of any large garment being ironed, fall Within the apartment under the board A, so as to keep it from the floor and dirt. The legs B being furnished with rollers, the other end of the table may be raised from the floor and run about the room with ease.

I am aware that the shape of the board A is not new; therefore I make no claimfor its tapering form.

What I claim is 1. The hinged boards 6 e, in combination with the racks F F and bed-piece Gr, substan tially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. An ironing table constructed with an ironing-board, A, grate D, racks F F, and bedpiece G, supported and arranged substantially as herein specified.

FREDERICK A. PAUL. Witnesses:

WILLIAM JAMES, JOHN Y. TERRY. 

